Letters

The Editor, Sir: I read one of your letters recently about good customer service at Victoria Mutual Building Society.

THE EDITOR, Sir: Below is the contents of an email that National Commercial Bank (NCB) sent to Mr Wayne Campbell, whose letter The Gleaner published on Monday under the caption 'Bad NCB ad'....

THE EDITOR, Sir: The article 'One-Don 'prophet' ...and a buckling Bruce' by your senior Gleaner writer, Gary Spaulding, of Sunday October 17, 2010 had some incorrect dates.

THE EDITOR, Sir: THIS IS an open letter to the National Works Agency (NWA). We are kindly urging the NWA not to wait until something tragic happens. The streetlights are not working along ...

THE EDITOR, Sir: EVERYWHERE I look, I see mediocrity. We swim in a sea of mediocrity and praise ourselves for being good swimmers.

THE EDITOR, Sir: How greedy and rapacious can these Jamaican bankers be? We hear of them making record profits every quarter, yet they continue to hit us with these ridiculous fees.I haven't had any transactions on my current account for some time now.

The Editor, Sir: "No matter how long you teach a fool, he still knows everything," Leonid Sukhorukov. If we are convinced as a nation that, 'by losing ground in our schools we've also lost ground in our economy'...

The Editor, Sir:I read the article in The Sunday Gleaner about the Half-Way Tree transportation hub and was left confused.

The Editor, Sir: I am currently in the UK witnessing the death and demise of the British welfare state.

The Editor, Sir: I am of the belief that the NCB Omni Educator advertisement currently being broadcast will do more harm than good by the message that is being implied with regard to the Jamaican male.

The Editor, Sir: The police force has embarked on a campaign to rid the streets of downtown Kingston of illegal vending and its associated ills.

US-China competitiveness is determined by PC/(PUSxE), where E is the number of yuans that a US dollar buys, PC is the Chinese price level of manufactured goods and PUS is the US price level for similar manufactured goods. When E gets smaller, i.e., the yuan appreciates and the dollar buys fewer yuans, the ratio increases and the US becomes more competitive vis-à-vis China.